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TopicElliot Page
MrMallard
12/02/20 1:19:02 AM
#20
As a high profile actor who's been operating as a woman in Hollywood for ages, it's a bit difficult to fully shift my mind to this new identity. I've seen them as Kitty Pryde, I've seen them as a female sidekick in Super. It's a shock, as someone who likes this actor's work and who's accepted them as a lesbian for so many years.

But ultimately, this is a journey that they've elected to take. After living as a lesbian for so many years, the prospect of living as a man has come to fruition. Coming out as gay in Hollywood was a big step, and it invited celebration and criticism. To now come out as transgender invites the same sort of attention, only more fervent now.

This isn't a process you put yourself through for attention, because for every expression of support you get, you get just as many people calling you mentally ill, attention seeking, a bad-faith actor for the "woke agenda" - even a traitor to your community. To come out as transgender must have taken a lot of time and courage to build up to.

I don't know what Elliot Page is going to do after his transition, but I support his decision. This is his choice to make, and while I need a period of time to adjust, I understand that this is a quality of life improvement for him and I wholeheartedly support his transition.

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TopicI see why people call The Last Jedi awful now
MrMallard
12/01/20 10:26:57 AM
#205
I'll add onto my last point and say that while I can appreciate what TLJ was trying to go for, I just didn't like the material. I didn't mind Canto Bight, and I don't mind the idea of Finn and Rose's quest, but the massive CGI chase scene near the end felt like Disney padding out the movie with massive piles of fuck-you money. A lot of the movie's humor felt kinda forced, and by the time they stopped going for the big yuks, I was kinda sick of the movie. Rose Tico felt underwritten, and I feel bad for Kelly Marie Tran for the abuse she had to put up with due to her involvement with the movie.

There are deleted scenes with more emotional depth and grit, like an alternate take of Phasma's big fight and Finn's "rebel scum" line. I will say that the cocky delivery in the final movie was one of the moments where I really smiled, but ultimately I think that grit is what I was missing from Finn and Rose's quest. Scenes like Finn waking up from his coma - after taking a lightsaber to the back to save Rey from Kylo Ren - and trying to escape from the rebels and getting shocked for it really undervalued his character imo, like he was taking a few too many pratfalls and becoming the butt of the joke.

I think that's why Finn, Rose and Canto Bight are considered to be the weaker parts of the movie. With a bit more grit, with the characters being a bit more down and out, I think their plotline would have gone over a little better and helped to balance out the movie. I feel bad for John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran, because I think the material of the pair that was used in TLJ wasn't always the best material they delivered. I think they were done in by the material, which carries into TRoS where Finn spends a bunch of the movie yelling Rey's name and Rose is a glorified background character.

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TopicAnyone heard of this show Broad City?
MrMallard
12/01/20 10:01:30 AM
#39
I've seen half of season 1. I picked it up on a lark the same day I grabbed the last season of The Good Place, so I'd have something to watch after it ended.

I'm having a hard time sitting through it by myself, because I'm laughing loud enough by myself to make me feel self-conscious. This would be the perfect show to watch alongside someone else and play off of them, but none of my friends want to watch it.

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TopicI see why people call The Last Jedi awful now
MrMallard
12/01/20 9:50:05 AM
#196
TRoS is the worst movie in the sequel trilogy, but that's because TLJ threw a massive spanner in the works. It gave a bunch of non-answers to TFA's main narrative hooks, and TRoS ended up being 2 movies worth of plot points and macguffins shoved into the skin of one movie to account for that. So despite being the worst movie of the sequel trilogy, I think TLJ was the worst sequel trilogy movie - if you catch my drift.

Honestly, they were better off making a third bridging movie that smoothed over the biggest bumps left by TLJ, and ending on Star Wars X. Because Star Wars X is an awesome name, and making a fourth movie would have been a lot better than the fuckin Frankenmovie we got in the end.

The Last Jedi had good points - I especially liked Luke Skywalker, to the point where his jokes were the ones that fit the movie the most. I think they killed him off one movie early, but the way they killed him off was graceful and arguably perfect - if it was presented in the right context. I even think it's a better movie than TRoS. But I think it's the worst sequel trilogy movie, because it's the movie that fucked the whole thing up, and I think it's the reason TRoS ended up the way it did in the first place. That's my take.

Also Finn/Rey should have been a thing, fuck reylo

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TopicSo that Monolith...is it a Publicity stunt for a movie?
MrMallard
12/01/20 7:17:50 AM
#24
My guess is that it's a massive viral marketing campaign for Fortnite

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TopicAus Gang: have you been affected by this blackout?
MrMallard
12/01/20 6:43:15 AM
#9
Darmik posted...
Never experienced anything here in Sydney.

It entirely missed Sydney. It went from a massive outage in the middle of the state, missed Sydney, Woolongong and Newcastle, and hit Port Macquarie.

I'm glad to hear most of y'all weren't affected though. It was out from 2pm to 9pm, it was super fucked up. At least Woolies was still open lol

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TopicAus Gang: have you been affected by this blackout?
MrMallard
12/01/20 5:30:29 AM
#7
Power just came back on where I live.

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TopicAus Gang: have you been affected by this blackout?
MrMallard
12/01/20 3:33:50 AM
#1
@LightningAce11
@TreyFlowers
@Darmik (I think)
@Rika_Furude
@ColdOne666

Those are all the Aussies I can think of rn

The blackout is from the middle of NSW up to Port Macquarie, diagonally up the state. Apparently all of Canberra is affected too.

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TopicBen Shapiro (husband to a wife with a DAP) is crying about lesbian xmas movies
MrMallard
11/30/20 9:38:47 PM
#62
Kazi1212 posted...
What hes saying isnt controversial. If conservatives want media more fit for their sensibilities then they should make their own media instead of complaining to Hollywood

Yeah, like that movie where a white guy can't get a radio gig because of ~diversity quotas~ so he pretends to be a black woman named LeQuisha by speaking in a broad accent

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TopicScalding Hot Take: Short games > Long games
MrMallard
11/30/20 9:24:31 PM
#6
I kind of agree. Sometimes I like a nice, brief, replayable game like A Robot Named Fight, and I like shorter RPGs from time to time to scratch that itch without having to commit to something massive.

But then you have games like Persona 5, which is an 80 hour game, and it's a masterpiece. So as much as I do like brief, replayable games, or even longer low-commitment games like Super Mario Sunshine/Galaxy, there are some monoliths of gaming that are worth committing to.

Game length shouldn't be treated as a measure of quality, which it has been used as in the past. The amount of content a game has doesn't matter if you get sick of it eventually. I agree with you on that. As I've gotten older, I've become more mindful of the commitment that you have to give longer video games - so I empathise with your point. But some of those longer video games, given that they accommodate your temperament, habits and mood, are worth committing to.

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TopicThe President-Elect twisted his ankle playing with his dog
MrMallard
11/30/20 12:43:40 AM
#24
TheLiarParadox posted...
@MrMallard

did you do this?!

Oh my god, dreams really do come true!!!

Edit: wait, I thought this was a Trump topic. I guess my energy missed Trump and hit Biden.

Still a pretty funny coincidence though

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TopicDonald Trump will be interviewed on Fox News at 10am EST.
MrMallard
11/29/20 9:33:37 AM
#2
Cool, hope he rolls his ankle.

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Topic70's music playlist
MrMallard
11/29/20 9:28:03 AM
#36
If You Could Read My Mind
https://youtu.be/v5tr_L31StI

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Topicso Mom officially hopped on the child-raping vampire blood cult conspiracy
MrMallard
11/29/20 9:23:22 AM
#17
ImAMarvel posted...
Can we admit that "both sides" people have a tendency to fall into extremist views on the right?

I remember a while ago, I got this idea that the way to true balance was to talk about both sides equally. So when I would discuss some stupid scummy thing the right had done, I'd chase it up with "the left has issues too, like this and this, but it's particularly disheartening to..." or whatever. As I criticised right wing bullshit, I would make room to assert that the left has issues too, even if the issues I brought up were petty squabbling compared to a right-wing business owner justifying his use of slurs or whatever.

What I realised in the end is that it's all about the time and place. I don't need to appease some jackass who thinks I'm being unfair to the right-wing. When something about the left comes up that I'm not a fan of, I'll talk about it. Of course, if it's some stupid bullshit that right-wingers do as well, but even more blatantly and ferverously when they do it, I'll talk about the bullshit double standard that's going on.

All that "both sides" does is trip people up. If you have to stop in the middle of a point to go "well the left can be a bit unfriendly unfortunately, not to the degree that they're mailing white supremacist literature to minorities who live in their neighbourhoods, but I'd be lying if I said the left didn't have a history of excluding others" - now there's room to drag the left down to the standards set by the right, despite the topic being about right-wingers mailing white supremacists rhetoric to minorities.

Like, those issues still exist, and they're worth discussing. But you don't have to balance out some right-winger bullshit by going "the left has issues similar to that" if those issues don't relate to the story at hand. All it does is take the focus off of "conservative intimidates minority with racist literature" and water the topic down into "many different walks of life exclude others" when that's not the point of the topic. The point is to talk about this redneck piece of shit sending white supremacist literature to minorities.

I would like it if there was a space to talk about how different political ideologies affect each other, how there might be reasonable conservative points in regards to finance or whatever the fuck as well as discussing humanitarianism on both sides of the political compass - but I don't have high hopes of that happening, because when you see someone going "that's not fair, you only talked about how one side is bad when both sides have issues with this subject", it's some right-wing dipshit trying to lessen the impact of some right-wing controversy. I can't take that suggestion in good faith after seeing the sort of people using it, as well as seeing the way they use it.

I'd like to believe that discussing how both sides relate to a certain issue is a suggestion made in good faith, but I can't reasonably do that after what happened in Charlottesville in 2017. Where in the face of a right wing who marched alongside Swastika flags and chanted neo-Nazi rallying cries, and a left side who chose to counter-protest this and had a car driven into them in retaliation, the president of the United States said that both sides had bad faith actors at that event and both deserved equal scrutiny for what happened. The stink of that statement will never come out of the "both sides" argument, and that mindset has poisoned political discourse for decades to come.

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Topic"I wouldn't want to bring a child into this crazy fucked up world"
MrMallard
11/29/20 8:46:22 AM
#53
R1masher posted...
because they are, its not about you once you have a kid... I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way


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TopicRATE: the weapons your PARENTS used to HIT you with as a kid/adult
MrMallard
11/29/20 4:37:50 AM
#52
My dad only ever smacked us, open-palmed, on the ass.

There was one time I copped a real hiding, I'd rate it 8/10. Every other time was 7/10 maximum.

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TopicReport on War Crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan released
MrMallard
11/28/20 1:16:47 AM
#35
Good news, I'm hanging out with my air traffic control poker buddy tonight. I'll see what his take on this is.

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TopicThe sad part is all this hip new leftists turned hyper activists
MrMallard
11/28/20 1:14:02 AM
#36
F1areaGaman posted...
DO YOU KNOW how many racists Fresh Prince prevented? More than the white people blocking the mall on Sunset Boulevard that's for sure

"welp, these radical leftist protestors are blocking my way into a mall, guess I hate blacks and Hispanics now. if only they had created and proliferated a TV show starring Oscar- and Grammy-nominated entertainment powerhouse Will Smith that questioned my notions of race"

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TopicBelarusian Dictator to Step Down
MrMallard
11/28/20 1:00:36 AM
#7
Neckhomachus posted...
who was that user whose best friend and her husband were stuck there? the going theory was that the belarusian govt disappeared her husband - was there any resolution to that?

To my recollection, the lady got her husband back and they got the hell out of Dodge. That, or she had to leave without him.

I could be entirely off the mark here, not trying to speak for TC - just going off of what I remember, which could be wrong.

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TopicShould I get The Last of Us 2 or Mortal Kombat 11?
MrMallard
11/27/20 10:03:01 AM
#5
The Last of Us 2 is overhated, but it's a game you've really got to commit to and it might be better for when there are no other games coming out for months.

Mortal Kombat 11, outside of the story DLC which I hate, is the cheesiest fun ever. It's overshadowed by X's brutality, but I fucking loved its stupid time travel plot and I love how eye-searingly bright and garish it is.

Don't sleep on The Last of Us 2 necessarily, but the more people playing MK11, the better. Like fuck, it redeemed Kotal Khan and gave him a character instead of having him be a boring piece of shit like in X. If you liked Mortal Kombat 9, I think you're gonna love MK11.

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TopicThere were so many stupid things about Power Rangers. SPOILERS
MrMallard
11/27/20 9:55:58 AM
#21
I was working at a cinema when the movie reboot came out. I feel like I would enjoy the show with all the crazy martial arts and stuff, but god this movie was a slog. Bryan Cranston plays a big ugly CGI head. The Red Ranger is a dumbass who's on probation for drink driving. The action sucks, except for like five minutes near the end.

The only consolation is that the Yellow Ranger was cool.


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Topica CEman has passed away
MrMallard
11/26/20 11:53:50 AM
#113
RIP bump

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TopicScenario: Dude you just met sacrifices his life to save you
MrMallard
11/26/20 6:58:44 AM
#10
I pretend that the stranger was actually my brother so people send me sympathy posts on GameFAQs

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TopicThree set pictures from Young Rock, the show about the childhood of The Rock
MrMallard
11/26/20 6:55:29 AM
#4
Looks cute

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TopicReport on War Crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan released
MrMallard
11/26/20 6:49:46 AM
#29
PtlessAgmnts posted...
@MrMallard and @Rika_Furude are better people to ask.
Honestly? I don't know where the issue stems from. The article mentions a "warrior culture", which would do it.

The military did have a scandal about 6 years ago where soldiers shared racist memes and posted photos and videos of women having sex with them. It was called the "Jedi council", and nearly 200 military members were reprimanded over it:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/jedi-council-sex-ring-171-australian-defence-force-staff-disciplined

Honestly, I think this is the standard we've set as a whole. Any Western country that took part in Afghanistan or Iraq post-9/11 has committed countless atrocities that will never go before a judge. Standards and international laws are being subverted because it's "us vs them" - they're the terrorists, who cares what happens to them? Something like that.

I'm not at all qualified to comment on this, these are just my random thoughts. I don't think the entitlement and toxic culture that led to these war crimes is exclusive to Australia though, I think it's a more widespread issue with American and Australian soldiers at the very least. But that's conjecture.

I have a friend of mine who served in Afghanistan post-9/11, I've been meaning to call her up and see how she's going. I also play poker with a friend of mine who's in the Air Force, he does flight control somewhere in Victoria and he went through all the military training and stuff. They're more knowledgeable about the military than I am, so they would be able to shine a light on this better than I would.

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TopicAre you at all jelly at all these people getting a new system?
MrMallard
11/26/20 1:19:51 AM
#32
I'm still playing my PS3 because there are games I haven't got to yet. So nah, I'm not fussed

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TopicQuinton Flynn(VA for Axel from KH/Raiden from MGS) gettin exposed on twitter
MrMallard
11/26/20 12:33:51 AM
#123
For fuck's sake Quinton. Fuck you.

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TopicPS5 scalper allegedly robbed
MrMallard
11/26/20 12:30:42 AM
#118
No sympathy for scalpers. Fuck him.

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TopicC/D: Radiohead is the greatest band of all time
MrMallard
11/26/20 12:29:36 AM
#5
D. They're fine, I like a handful of songs from them, but I'm just not into them.

They're as much of a singles band for me as Coldplay is.

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TopicIt always puzzled me last decade why the internet derided bronies as homosexuals
MrMallard
11/26/20 12:26:22 AM
#12
I never saw "Bronies are gay" discourse, though I don't doubt it existed. I saw "grown men are creating so much cartoon horse porn that it's not safe for the young female demographic that the show is aimed at to Google their favorite show" discourse.

Like, this is the Brony community in a nutshell:



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TopicA lot of animation critics on Youtube aren't liking the Animaniacs reboot
MrMallard
11/25/20 7:39:07 AM
#27
VipaGTS posted...
Animation critics on YouTube? So neckbeards whining about muh nostalgia!?

ToonrificTariq is pretty cool for the record. And while he's cringe as fuck, Pan Pizza has some decent takes too.

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TopicNicki Minaj: Never forget Grammys gave Best New Artist to the white man Bon Iver
MrMallard
11/25/20 7:35:44 AM
#88
I mean, if she had 7 songs charting in the same year she debuted and got noticed, then I understand where she's coming from.

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TopicElon Musk passes Bill Gates to become world's second-richest person.
MrMallard
11/24/20 11:55:31 AM
#25
Because Musk is accumulating wealth, while Gates is spending his on philanthropic ventures.

I mean, you can sum it up with this line from the article:

Lebronwon posted...
The Microsoft co-founder has spent lots of money on COVID-19 vaccine research this year and sparred with Musk online after the Tesla founder doubted pandemic data and called COVID-19 tests extremely bogus.

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TopicWill you miss anyone from the Trump administration?
MrMallard
11/24/20 11:51:55 AM
#13
Not at all. Nothing good has come out of the Trump administration. America's even more divided than it was before, companies pay less tax and there are less regulations for them to follow which affects consumers. Even if a completely mismanaged pandemic wasn't ripping holes in the US population like Swiss cheese, America looks like a worse place to live today than ever if you're working-middle class or lower.


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TopicThe PS2 had 3 main GTAs...
MrMallard
11/24/20 10:16:10 AM
#6
There were less moving parts to consider on the PS2 than on later consoles. The amount of work that went into GTA5, and which is presumably going into GTA6, is magnitudes ahead of what the PS2 was even capable of.

Also, there were side studios who made handheld GTA games for the PSP, and they got ported to PS2 - so technically there's 5 GTA games on PS2. Vice City Stories is particularly good for its time.

I understand that people are sick of GTA5, but the amount of time, money and effort that went into making it is insane. Like GTA3 would have cost a lot to develop, for sure - but I don't think it cost $265 million dollars to make, and I don't think it had a staff of over 1,000 to develop it. I can see why it's held on for this long.

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TopicGood games that were ultimately bad for their series?
MrMallard
11/24/20 3:30:06 AM
#30
totalnerdken posted...
How was this bad for the series?

The tone and game design shifted drastically, which influenced the rest of the series.

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TopicPSA: the Master challenge mode on Tetris Effect is hardcore as fuck. Can't beat
MrMallard
11/24/20 2:25:29 AM
#7
Nah, M15 is my upper limit. I even changed controllers. Shit's fucked.

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TopicDo you think straight women and gay men like sucking a guy off?
MrMallard
11/22/20 9:55:48 PM
#20
Some people like sucking dick, others don't. It depends on the person.

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TopicYou may order 3 separate things at a Chinese restaurant. What are they?
MrMallard
11/22/20 9:52:10 PM
#7
Satay chicken, seafood Nasi Goreng and Singapore noodles

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TopicYou ever just snack on a pickle?
MrMallard
11/22/20 9:50:42 PM
#3
Pickles are one of my favorite snacks. I can eat an entire jar of gherkins in like 15 minutes, and that includes drinking the brine and eating the dillweed at the bottom of the jar.

It's an excellent way to make you shit your guts out, too.

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TopicPSA: the Master challenge mode on Tetris Effect is hardcore as fuck. Can't beat
MrMallard
11/22/20 9:16:05 PM
#5
Like, I managed to beat the main game on Expert. I failed a couple of times near the end, but I managed to beat the main game in one sitting on Expert.

Master mode is a whole other beast.

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TopicCyndaquil and it's evolutions are hella underappreciated
MrMallard
11/22/20 12:33:45 PM
#8
I love Cyndaquil, but Totodile is the best evolutionary line of the Johto games design-wise. Croconaw looks like a shitty caveman, but Feraligatr is fucking badass.

Quilava's nice, but Typhlosion is a weak design - especially compared to a fucking dragon from last gen. It's just a weird mole character with a bit of fire coming out of its neck, it's lost all of Cyndaquil's charm. And while I like Chikorita and Bayleef, Meganium is just a smooth dinosaur with a flower mane.

Feraligatr is nasty and gnarly, and it's on brand. Meganium is at least on brand. Typhlosion just kinda sucks design-wise.

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TopicToxic feminity: is it real?
MrMallard
11/22/20 12:19:51 PM
#40
MKScorpion posted...
Idk why we have to gender this shit, men and women can be toxic assholes. It's about not about masculinity or femininity, some people are just pricks.

You can be toxic in a non-gendered way, absolutely. But by holding people to pointless social standards based on how they were born, it's possible for people to spread toxic traits though gender expression. Both gendered and non-gendered toxicity exists.

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TopicToxic feminity: is it real?
MrMallard
11/22/20 12:16:01 PM
#39
CyricZ posted...
Simply being "a shit person" doesn't qualify as gendered. TERFs are a pretty recent phenomenon all things considered.

I feel like gatekeeping and bigotry in the vein of what TERFs are all about has always existed though, even in more progressive circles. Transphobic sentiment has proliferated in the queer community despite trans people being one of the four main letters in the LGBT acronym, with movements to take the acronym back to GL. There are people who would participate in Pride, then turn around and use the t-slur. Biphobia has been a thing for decades as well, and discourse about ace people really picked up in the 2010's.

In my opinion, TERFs are a recent phenomenon for the same reason that the alt right is a recent phenomenon. People who behave like that have always existed, but the networking capabilities of social media have allowed them to legitimise their shitty views under a banner and proliferate them to anyone who might be sympathetic to their rhetoric. The term TERF is new, but the type of person it represents isn't.

It's like how pedophiles rebranded as MAPs. They hitched themselves to identity politics to try and gain mainstream legitimacy.

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TopicPSA: the Master challenge mode on Tetris Effect is hardcore as fuck. Can't beat
MrMallard
11/22/20 11:40:06 AM
#3
pojr posted...
they need to make this game for switch
I agree. Puyo Puuo Tetris just isn't cutting it for me any more.

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TopicPSA: the Master challenge mode on Tetris Effect is hardcore as fuck. Can't beat
MrMallard
11/22/20 11:38:52 AM
#1
The most lines I've cleared is 143. I'm playing with an Xbox gamepad with a busted d-pad - the up button is finicky as fuck.

I'll get a bit too sluggish for a hot second, and two or three tetranominos will stack up in the middle of the screen. It's fucked up. I'm not a Tetris pro, but I would say that I'm pretty good - I can't even make it halfway through the Master challenge. It really shows you where you stand.

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TopicMadeline, protagonist of Celeste, is a confirmed TRANSGENDER.
MrMallard
11/22/20 11:30:59 AM
#14
This reminds me of when people began analysing The Matrix through the lens of it being an allegory for gender transition. Which was an interesting viewpoint to consider, considering that its two directors are trans women who hadn't transitioned at the time.

This is a statement put out by the character designer who began to see elements of their transness reflected in the character they designed. Whether you agree with that or not, it counts for more than some shitty "Dumbledore is gay" headline that ultimately doesn't affect the property at hand. Take it or leave it, but at the very least, I think Madeline being trans is a viewpoint that's worth considering when you take her creator's experiences into account.

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TopicList games ITT where you do not play as a human
MrMallard
11/22/20 11:17:07 AM
#52
Night in the Woods
Mr. Mosquito

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TopicQuinton Flynn(VA for Axel from KH/Raiden from MGS) gettin exposed on twitter
MrMallard
11/22/20 11:14:27 AM
#106
It's been a bad few days for voice acting. Kirby Morrow dies, and Quinton Flynn gets outed as a predator. Sucks to be a stupid weeb nerd atm

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TopicToxic feminity: is it real?
MrMallard
11/22/20 11:08:08 AM
#33
like, my understanding of toxic masculinity is strictly defined gender traits. "Men drink beer, not cocktails", "real men play sports", "men don't cry". There is a list of things that men do, and that men specifically don't do - and if you don't fit that mold, you're othered as gay or soft. By not fitting the masculine standard, you're branded as an outsider and your social standing lowers.

And then you have societal standards from decades past that basically amount to "a proud, self-assured man doesn't take no for an answer", where the masculine ideal is perverted in favour of entitlement. That's toxic masculinity - exclusion, emotional suppression and entitlement.

The feminine equivalent to that is being a TERF. Like yeah, women have had a rough go of it and there are bullshit societal standards that need to be challenged - the core of feminism is fine. But TERFs take it to a level where they're actively policing who is and isn't female. Their rhetoric has become so brazen and fearful that TERF shit has begun to affect AFAB people who don't meet a certain standard of femininity.

Earlier this year, there was an altercation where a woman was evicted from a public toilet despite A) being born a woman and B) identifying as a woman. But she looked mannish, and some dumb fuck got so uncomfortable that another woman was so far removed from their idea of femininity that they called security and got her evicted from the public toilet.

On top of their crazy identity policing, they accuse other women of having "internalized misogyny" for not believing in their ideals. To be considered valid, you have to agree with and champion a specific, radical strain of feminism that caters to a specific strain of feminists while excluding others. Champion what they champion, and hate what they hate. Stray from the path, and your validity under their beliefs is revoked - your womanhood is considered void.

They'll use the core message of feminism to fight for rights that benefit their preferred mold of femininity, while restricting and policing others that they disagree with. They exclude, they suppress issues and emotions that don't align with their worldview, and they abuse a progressive cause to gain validity for themselves while keeping the undesirable riff-raff down. TERFdom, IMO, is the mirror image of toxic masculinity.

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